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Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.

James Clear

Put another way, the costs of your good habits are in the present. The costs of your bad habits are in the future.
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Bad Cost Future Goodness Habit Present
Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.
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Change Improvement Live People Right Time Wait
The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
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Boredom End Excellence Fall In Love Fascinate Yourself
You do it because it’s who you are and it feels good to be you. The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.
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Encouragement Feeling Habit Need Yourself
Small changes often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold. The most powerful outcomes of any compounding process are delayed. You need to be patient.
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Appearance Change Need Patience Process Small Yourself
Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.
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Attention Freedom Habit Load Mental Work Yourself
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.
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Action Belief Build Evidence Identity Person Transformation Type Vote Yourself
Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.
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Enemy Friendship Goodness Habit Time Yourself
Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity.
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Belief Best Expand Identity Version Yourself
Redesign your life so the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do.
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Action Design Easy Life Yourself
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
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Hurt Work Yourself
When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy.
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Fall In Love Happiness Permission Process Product Wait
How can I make it obvious? How can I make it attractive? How can I make it easy? How can I make it satisfying?
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Attraction Easy Myself Satisfaction Work
Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course.
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Achievement Attention Course Distract Help Specific Yourself
You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.
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Architect Choice Environment Inspirational Job Victim Yourself
Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.
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Consumption Design World Yourself

Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.

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Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.

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